Re: Xah's Edu Corner: the bug-reporting attitude

2006-01-02 Thread robic0
On 2 Jan 2006 13:16:26 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Bug-Reporting Attitude Xah Lee, 2005-02, 2006-01 People, There is a common behavior among people in software geek forums, that whenever a software is crashing or behaving badly, they respond by “go file a bug report” as if it

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-21 Thread robic0
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:05:59 GMT, Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:42:52 -0800, robic0 wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : If the software opens a file and is in the middle of writing to it, then the user dumps the power to the machine and ends up

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-18 Thread robic0
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:27:58 +, Mark Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robic0 wrote: Xah, please admit to me that your under the influence of physocopic drugs! He could be schizophrenic. Seekers of all things wierd on the internet can do no better than Gene Ray's Timecube: http

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-18 Thread robic0
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:47:29 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xah Lee wrote: cut Nice rant, btw in most EU countries the software creator can not withdraw the responsibility of his/her/it creation, regardless of what the disclaimer says. Pretty big damned statement there boy!

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-17 Thread robic0
On 16 Dec 2005 16:52:43 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Responsible Software Licensing Xah Lee, 200307 Software is a interesting invention. Software has this interesting Soft, like your head property, that it can be duplicated without cost, as if like copying it costs to dup, dup money.

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-17 Thread robic0
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:55:10 +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robic0 wrote: Xah Lee wrote: snip snip So, at last they found one another. :( Thanks for the coaching Gunnar !!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-20 Thread robic0
On 14 Oct 2005 19:01:42 -0700, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xah Lee, I went through some of your web site, because of time couldn't examine (but a few) code guides. Read all you philosophy pages though, even about languages I didn't know. I took a course in my Mechanical Engineering study

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-20 Thread robic0
On 14 Oct 2005 19:01:42 -0700, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this guy should run for President. Anybody says M$oft is trying to screw the little guy is alright in my book. Microsoft Hatred, FAQ Xah Lee, 20020518 Question: U.S. Judges are not morons, and quite a few others are not